Basically, the more insurance fraud/theft/drinking and driving/dumb accidents we have, everybody pays the price. my insurance premiums for my car only go up. Any losses that ICBC sustains will ultimately be taken out of the pockets of the people, like myself.

ICBC is notorious, as it is, for their inefficiency in operations and overstaffing/overpaying due to unions etc. The purpose of being public is to keep things clean and clear for the people but instead we are rewarded with very high insurance prices. Our insurance rates are significantly higher than that in Ontario for one, and I’m sure the similar figures come up with other cross-continental comparisons.

The only people that will leave with the big millions after a bankruptcy, if ever in ICBC (considering they are public, and they will simply jack up the prices at the face of a deficit, like they always have), nobody walks away with the millions because no individual owns it or has shares in it. The government loses money and the taxes will come out of everybody’s pockets!

Oh and yes, I love political debates!!!

And feeling sorry for the car insurance company, you have to remember you are feeling sorry about a corporation, not people. The people are all on salary, they dont’ miss a dime. No corporation opperates with such little reserves that they cant take a small blow like this, besides they can just make it up somewhere else with an increase.

And when a company goes bankrupt, how many at the top leave with millions of dollars? Let the big boys do as they please so the little guy can keep their jobs.

Don’t you like talking politics and stuff?

I should have specified more. I’m in support of recovering the areas that do affect the usage of the park - for example, all the benches/driveways/walkpaths/parking lots should be clear of debree. But Stanley Park also has a VERY dense forrest area, which nobody can go into anyways because it’s too wild - and it’s the cleanup of those trees that bother me! Those trees do not alter the effective use of the park in any way - it is PURELY cosmetic..

The difference in cost to clean up JUST the trees that affect the usage of the park vs. cleaning up all the fallen trees is MILLIONS. Stanley Park is huge, and the dense forest area is very wide as well!

My opinion is that fallen trees are just part of nature, and if it doesn’t need to be removed for practical reasons it should stay that way. Just like we would any other natural forest that suffers destroyed trees due to storms etc.

You know what else happens at Stanley Park? You get to chillax, sip on some suds, and escape all of lifes problems all under the warm vancouver sun.